September 2006 - Posts

A cool video of the Zune up on 10...and I just bought my sister an iPod Video for her birthday
30 September 06 01:27 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   
A few of the 10 team are talking about their latest video - a demo of the new Zune. I'm quite impressed with what will be possible but still made the decision to get my wee sis a White iPod Video (she doens't read the blog so won't know til next weekend Read More...
Cool picture of all the new Vista Icons
25 September 06 09:23 AM | markjo | 3 Comments   
Don't need to say much really, just look (click to see them in full 256 * 256 res) ... Link to IStartedSomething.com tags: vista , user experience , icons Read More...
Great User Experiences which are really bad
22 September 06 01:09 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   
It's Friday and I stumbled across this little nugget of Kazakhstan gold! A great example of how user experience when really bad can be really good, in the context it is set! http://borat.tv Can't wait for the movie to come out here in the UK Jagshemash! Read More...
Getting design time rendering of ASP.NET Themes in Expression Web
22 September 06 12:22 PM | markjo | 4 Comments   
MikeO on my team asked me what was Expression Web's support for ASP.NET Themes - a great bit of functionality in ASP.NET 2.0 which allows developers to dictate the appearance of controls in a web application using template files with a .skin extension Read More...
Digital Cameras - Am I a Pro or just a plain old Con?
20 September 06 04:03 PM | markjo | 1 Comments   
Over the past few team meetings when we go through all the events for the next few months, I keep mentioning that I am going to Australia with my girlfriend for a glorious 3 weeks and won't be around all of December. It will be my first break longer than Read More...
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Expression Web - Visual Aids and CSS management cool features
20 September 06 03:25 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   
Last night, I talked about Expression Web and how it is a great new design tool for web developers wishing to create visually compelling, standards based websites (either HTML or ASP.NET). I showed a load of great features which you woudn't necessarily Read More...
Phew - just finished my first MSDN Event. Real developers aren't that scary!
20 September 06 02:35 PM | markjo | 1 Comments   
I have to admit that over the past week or so I have been getting more nervous sitting quietly in the corner of our floor in TVP. You see, I have given lots (100s) of presentations over the past 3 years at MS, talked to senior academics in top universities, Read More...
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For the man/woman that has everything, the mouse that does it all too!
13 September 06 09:51 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=085 Funky! Will have to get myself one of these :-) tags: mouse , presenting , gadgets Read More...
Ruby on .NET and WPF revolution
13 September 06 09:09 AM | markjo | 0 Comments   
I get a regular email from the people over on www.theserverside.net and the most recent one included some interesting stuff for web developers and those interested in developing clients using WPF. First, people are porting Ruby onto the .NET Framework Read More...
Developer Developer Developer IV - Your opportunity to present (UK ONLY)
11 September 06 10:55 AM | markjo | 0 Comments   
I've attended one DDD event before and they are great fun. Another one is coming and the organisers are looking for session proposals. If you are up for talking on a technology area which you are passionate about and think others would find it useful Read More...
Using IE7 Search for MSDN
08 September 06 09:19 AM | markjo | 0 Comments   
As a developer learning a lot of new stuff I find myself constantly searching on one of two search engines - Live and Google to find stuff. And a lot of the time the search results lead me back to our developer network, MSDN. I just spotted on an internal Read More...
More Gadget Goodness
06 September 06 10:48 AM | markjo | 1 Comments   
The Sidebar gadget team are blogging - hopefully they will have much more insightful stuff than my hacking :) http://blogs.msdn.com/sidebar/default.aspx tags: vista , sidebar , gadgets Read More...
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Vista RC1 Sidebar Gadget Object Model documentation updated
06 September 06 09:43 AM | markjo | 2 Comments   
Just spotted on Adam Kinney's blog that there is an updated version of the documentation live on MSDN for developing Vista Sidebar gadgets. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sidebar/sidebar/overviews/gdo.asp tags: sidebar Read More...
Microsoft Expression Web (No longer Designer) Beta 1
06 September 06 09:37 AM | markjo | 2 Comments   
The product formerly known as Expression Web Designer is now called just Expression Web and the product group have just shipped Beta 1 for customers to download and play with. In case you don't know what EW (see, getting into th swing of acronymns already) Read More...
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SiDEBAR GADGETS: Using Javascript to poll an ASMX web service
05 September 06 11:06 AM | markjo | 0 Comments   
One of the main focus areas for my sports gadget was to make the gadget as simple as possible and keep all the hard work on the server - to reduce complexity for the client and if I'm honest I find it easier to do that in C# than Javascript (which I am Read More...
macbook pro issues - bootcamp, ati and external monitors
04 September 06 10:33 AM | markjo | 5 Comments   
In my new role as a Developer Evangelist working on web technologies for designers and developers, I thought it would be a good idea to break the typical Microsoft techy mold and not have a beefy laptop or tablet to do demos and presentations on. I have Read More...
XNA Express BETA released - games industry 2.0
04 September 06 10:04 AM | markjo | 0 Comments   
I've been following the development of XNA for a long time since it's introduction at GDC a couple of years ago and was aware of the developments with XNA Express and the possibility to develop games for the Xbox 360. In my old job I used to spend a lot Read More...
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